Filigrana de Ideas

Filigrana de Ideas is an illustrator from Argentina. She creates illustrations for children’s books and also runs a brand featuring fun products with her artwork.

Forrest Burdett

Forrest is a queer illustrator from New Jersey with an eye for whimsy, a heart full of magic, and a passion for vibrant colours. He studied Illustration at the Fashion Institute of Technology and now lives in Portland, Oregon. He loves finding magic in the small, everyday moments and uses his art as a means to explore and share them. He spends his days creating, reading, and eating an obscene amount of chocolate. You can see more of his work at forrestburdett.com.

Emma Chinnery

Emma Chinnery is a British children’s author and illustrator. Emma worked for several years as a graphic artist before her passion for children’s books led her to study on the MA Children’s Book Illustration course at the Cambridge School of Art. When she’s not drawing or writing, you’ll find her on a bike, cycling the country lanes of Suffolk.

Emi-Lou May

Emi-Lou May lives in a boys’ boarding school near Oxford, England, with a husband, four children, 65 teenaged boys and a host of lively pets. Emi-Lou previously worked in film and radio and has always loved the art of storytelling in any and every format. Doctorsaurus is her debut picture book.

Emma Young

Emma Young is a writer and editor, specialising in children’s fiction. She is the main writer behind the GIRLS CAN VLOG series for tweens which has been translated into 14 languages. Emma lives in East Dulwich.

Emma Yarlett

Highly commended in the Macmillan Prize for Illustration 2011, Emma began her career as an author and illustrator whilst still studying Illustration at Falmouth University. She now paints, draws, collages, designs, doodles, splatters and sketches for a living from her studio at home in Falmouth, near Truro, and loves every minute of it! In her spare time Emma loves to eat jaffa cakes, craves pets and suppresses a desire to spend her entire income on colouring pencils.

Ella Bailey

Ella Bailey is a freelance illustrator currently living in Devon, in the UK. She specializes in children’s books having illustrated many board, novelty and picture books. Ella works mostly digitally and likes to incorporate lots of texture and limited, lively palettes into her artwork. Some of her favourite things to draw include children, animals and ghosts.

Ellie Patterson

Ellie lives in Brighton and has been penning children’s books since her early twenties (which is quite a long time ago). She works as a senior editor and loves to hang out in coffee shops, sipping oat milk cappuccinos and soaking up inspiration with her beloved mac laptop. Her dog Daisy, a goldendoodle, is usually to be found asleep at her feet. Ellie loves yoga, the sea, chocolate and train travel.

Ella Hobbis

After a career in digital marketing, Ella returned to her childhood passion of drawing and hasn't put her pencils down since. Her heart lies in creating art for children; she draws with passion, texture and tiny details to create memorable picture books that will inspire and delight young readers. Her illustrations may often appear simple, but always make sure to look out for the details she hides in them… a lot like life, there's always magic to be found somewhere.